City of Philadelphia - File #: 060910

• File #: 060910
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 11/30/2006
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 11/30/2006
• Title: Commending RecycleBank as the 2006 Waste News' Corporate Environmental Award winner and encouraging the Department of Streets to maintain and expand the company's services in the City of Philadelphia.
• Sponsors: Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Council President Verna, Councilmember Savage, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Campbell, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember Kelly, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Ramos, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember Clarke

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
11/30/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED
11/30/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
11/30/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Commending RecycleBank as the 2006 Waste News' Corporate Environmental Award winner and encouraging the Department of Streets to maintain and expand the company's services in the City of Philadelphia.
Body
WHEREAS, RecycleBank is a private, Philadelphia-based company founded by Patrick FitzGerald and Ron Gonen to provide incentives for residents to recycle. Currently, in the Philadelphia trial program, households can earn up to $30 RecycleBank dollars per month that can be used to shop at over 300 participating stores including local and national convenience stores, restaurants, groceries and coffee shops; and

WHEREAS, RecycleBank provides each home in its service area with a 35, 64, or 96 gallon RecycleBank Container that has an imbedded barcode to keep track of the amount each home recycles. The Company also supports a single stream recycling system that enables you to deposit all of your recyclables (paper, cardboard, plastic, glass, tin, aluminum) in your RecycleBank Container; and

WHEREAS, RecycleBank provides a complete suite of reports that includes detailed performance analysis of recycling rates, participation rates, and collection efficiency at the household, street, route, neighborhood and municipal level; and

WHEREAS, In the first phase of Philadelphia's pilot project, a 1200 household section of Chestnut Hill, participation rates rose from 30% to 90% and weekly recycling rates rose from 10 pounds per household to 35 pounds per household. The second phase of the program, a section of West Oak Lane, also saw participation rates rise to 90% daily recycling rates rose from 3 pounds per household to nearly 20 pounds; and

WHEREAS, This innovative program has been honored by receiving 2006 Waste News' Corporate Environmental Award which annually recognizes companies that have made a dramatic impact on the environment in the past year. Waste News is the nation's leading publication for issues related to refuse, recycling, energy and ...